The risk to businesses caused by data breaches, inadvertent or otherwise, is by now well understood by most security professionals. However, these breaches continue. A new report, published by Verizon Business Security Solutions, covers four years and more than 500 investigations and shows that, surprisingly, 73 percent of breaches resulted from external sources as opposed to only 18 percent from insider threats. This interesting and useful report also provides recommendations on preventing breaches within businesses and mitigation advice. You can access the report through this link:Monday, June 16, 2008
Information Security – Data Breach Report
The risk to businesses caused by data breaches, inadvertent or otherwise, is by now well understood by most security professionals. However, these breaches continue. A new report, published by Verizon Business Security Solutions, covers four years and more than 500 investigations and shows that, surprisingly, 73 percent of breaches resulted from external sources as opposed to only 18 percent from insider threats. This interesting and useful report also provides recommendations on preventing breaches within businesses and mitigation advice. You can access the report through this link:
